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"By function of this blockade, 1.5 million Palestinian men, women and children have been forcibly deprived of their most basic human rights for months. This is in direct contravention of international human rights and humanitarian law. It must end now."
Navi Pillay
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, was calling for an immediate end to the Israeli blockade of Gaza.

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  • Astronaut Is Sorry to Lose Bag Of Tools
  • Gaza Blockade to Continue
  • Bailout of Big Three Stalls in Senate
  • Sports medicine college on way
  • My 2012 dream, by would-be Palalympian swimmer Dan Pepper

    Tennessee
  • Corporate jet traffic at McGhee Tyson off
  • Knoxville developers sued over unpaid debt allegation
  • Gage turns in career day, team
  • U.S. housing starts lowest since 1959
  • U of Tennessee blocked P2P sites before RIAA law

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    (AP Photo/John Russell)Vanderbilt's Christina Wirth, right, and Jence Rhoads, left, pressure Eastern Kentucky's Nadia Mossong during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Nashville,...

    Tennessee Men Set Relay Records in Day One
    On day one of the Tennessee Swimming Invitational, the Tennessee relay teams lived up to expectations. UT head men's coach John Trembley said prior to the meet that he expected records to be...

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    Global Perspective
    Al-Qaeda makes racial slur against Obama
    Al-Qaeda has insulted US President-elect Barack Obama, by referring to him as a “house negro,” a demeaning racial term used to refer to blacks who do the bidding of...

    UN says Gaza children being held hostage by blockade
    The Gaza Strip is being choked and its 1.5 million population is being held hostage as collective punishment, a UN official...

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    Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, the head of the NATO military committee, has told reporters that it is essential to win over the hearts and minds of tribesmen living in the country's lawless border with...

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  • Gallatin man pleads guilty to second-degree murder
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    Space
  • NASA successfully tests first deep space Internet
  • Astronomers detect rare explosion of binary star inside planetary nebula
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  • Black holes can act as hearts to galaxies
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  • Why blunt the power of philanthropy
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